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PEA SEPARATOR: No.282,373 Patented July 31,1883.

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PEA SEPARATOR.

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CHARLES H. J. ROBERTS, ()FVFLORENOE, ALABAMA,

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Iiett'ers Patent No, 282,373, dated July e1, 1883.

Application filed March 20, 1383. (No model.)

To all whom it flung concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES, H. J. ROB- ERTS, of Florence, in the county ofL'auderdale and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Pea Separators; and I do hereby declare that the ing the hulling and-separating cylinders removed; and Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical crosssections 011 lines 00 m and 3/ y, Fig. .2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to pea hullers and separators; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a rectangular frame, in which the several shafts are j ournaled and the parts of the machine secured.

The power is applied to a pulley, B, journaled at the end of the frame, which is belted to a. smaller pulley, 0, upon a shaft, D, journaled in bearings E upon the upper edges of the end piece of the frame and of a transverse partition, F, and having afiy-wheel, G, fastened upon its outer end, whereas the hullingdrum H is fastened upon its inner portion. This drum revolves inside the hulling-cylinder I, the upper portion of which forms a removable hood, J, which is hinged to a bar, K, extending from the end of the frame to partition F, and is cut out or slotted at the front to form a feed-throat, L, through which the peas are fed into the cylinder from a hinged feed-table, M, and beaten and broken by spikes N upon the hulling-drum operating between spikes 0 upon thebrid'ge-pieces Pin the lower portion of the cylinder. The cylinder opens at the bottom into a long cylinder, Q, extending the entire length of the machine, open at Q, at the end farthest away from the hullingcylinder, having its lower half perforated, said perforations being large enough to admit of the'hulled peas passing through them, and having a removable hood or cover, q, forming the upper portion of .that part of the cylinder which extends from the hulling-cylinder to the open end Q of cylinder Q.

A shaft, It, provided with spirally-arranged radial agitatingarms, S, is revolved inside cylinder Q by means of a belt passing over a pulley, T, upon the end of saidshaft, and over a pulley, U, upon the power-shaft, and serves to carry the broken hulls and straw. out of the open end of the cylinder, while the peas fall through the perforated bottom of the same into an inclined chute, V, which extends un der the entire length of cylinder Q, a short distance below the same, opening at the end opposite to the opening of cylinder Q.

Secured near the bottom of the frame, and extending the full length of the same, is a fan, W, having its discharge-opening extended, forming .a wide neck, X, which throws the blast from the fan into the space between cylinderQ'and chute V, blowing the chaff and dust off from the peas as they drop down, the

chaff and dust passing out through an upwardly-inclined chute, V, extending the e11- tire length of the frame.

The fanW is operated by means of a belt United States 1. The combination, in a pea huller and separator, of the toothed hulling-cyli'nder and .toothed. imperforate concave, the perforated cylinder Q, arranged below the'planeof the hulling-concave, and opening at the end farthest from the hulling-cylinder, and removable hood q, as described, and the shaft R, having spirally-arranged arms S, as and .for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. The combination, in a pea huller and Separator, of thetoothedhulling drum and construoted to operate as and for the purpose cave, the perforated separating-cylinder, arshown and set forth. ranged below the plane of the hulling-concave In testimony that I claim the foregoing as and open at the end farthest from the hullmy own I have hereunto affixed my Signature 5 ing-cylinder, the axial shaft having spirallyin presence of two witnesses.

arranged stirring-arms the fan extending the entire length of the machine, the upwardly- CHARLES ROBERTS inclined chaff-discharge chute extending the Vitnesses: entire length of the maohine and the down- S. S. IvEs, IO wardly-inolinedpea-dischargingchute all con- 0. F. CARSON. 

